Oviposition site selectivity of some stream-dwelling caddisflies

Hydrobiologia

Volumn 652, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 165-178

  Lancaster, Jill ^a,c   Downes, Barbara J ^b   Arnold, Amanda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Communal egg laying; Egg supply; Hydropsychidae; Polycentropodidae; Recruitment; Rhyacophilidae

Indexed keywords

ADULT FEMALES; AQUATIC INSECTS; AQUATIC SPECIES; EMPIRICAL DATA; FIELD SURVEYS; FOOD RESOURCES; HETEROGENEOUS ENVIRONMENTS; RHYACOPHILIDAE; SITE SELECTIVITY; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRICHOPTERA;

APARTMENT HOUSES; AQUACULTURE; BUILDINGS; HYDRAULICS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; ROCKS;

SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; CADDISFLY; FIELD SURVEY; HERBIVORE; HETEROGENEITY; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RECRUITMENT (POPULATION DYNAMICS); SITE SELECTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STREAM CHANNEL; SURVIVORSHIP;

SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

HEXAPODA; HYDROPSYCHE SILTALAI; HYDROPSYCHIDAE; POLYCENTROPODIDAE; POLYCENTROPUS FLAVOMACULATUS; RHYACOPHILA DORSALIS; RHYACOPHILIDAE; TRICHOPTERA;

EID: 77954688961     PISSN: 00188158     EISSN: 15735117     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10750-010-0328-2     Document Type: Article

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